When Your Anger, Not Your Girly Thoughts, Can Be Your Friend

March 12th, 2015 | Posted by Patricia O'Gorman, PhD in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on When Your Anger, Not Your Girly Thoughts, Can Be Your Friend)

So often we feel it is not good to be angry—particularly at work, where we’ll be seen and judged. We fear our anger is unbecoming, and that if we let ourselves get angry, we won’t be liked or that we’ll be labeled the dreaded “B-word.” Instead, we tell ourselves we should be pleasing, approachable, not …
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How to Know if Your Girly Thoughts Are Holding You Back at Work: 6 Easy Steps

February 9th, 2015 | Posted by Patricia O'Gorman, PhD in Girly Thoughts | Health & Wellness | Women's Issues | Workplace Issues - (Comments Off on How to Know if Your Girly Thoughts Are Holding You Back at Work: 6 Easy Steps)

When you hold yourself back, when you don’t assert the power of your position, share your information, offer your opinion, there is a price to be paid—and it is either paid in real time with negative consequences or paid down the line in a failure to really succeed.       Are You Holding Yourself …
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Why Your Girly Thoughts Telling You to Be So Darn NICE at Work is a Problem

October 17th, 2014 | Posted by Patricia O'Gorman, PhD in Girly Thoughts | Women's Issues | Workplace Issues - (Comments Off on Why Your Girly Thoughts Telling You to Be So Darn NICE at Work is a Problem)

By Patricia O’Gorman, PhD Author of The Girly Thoughts 10-Day Detox Plan: The Resilient Woman’s Guide to Saying NO to Negative Self-Talk and YES to Personal Power  (publication date 10.28.14) — a fun book about a serious topic       The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power (2013)       Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting—The Codependency Connection (2012) …
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